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[quote=Anonymous]A kid at the top of the magnet has better chances for IVY admission.

A kid in the middle of the magnet (average grades, expected course progression without advanced track, no particular achievement in chosen extracurriculars) has nearly no chances of an IVY admission, but may have done better at the home school.

Before even considering a magnet, you must absolutely make sure that your local state flagship continues to accept A and B magnet students without a question.  The minute any state flagship only accepts 20% of TJ / Blair Magnet / RMIB / Poolesville into their programs, the magnets become a devastatingly poor proposition for the 80% of the students who enter the selective admission program.

Of course, changes in admission patterns in Maryland will change the game plan for the relationship between magnet and college admission there.  I expect you'll see fewer MIT/Stanford admissions, balanced by more HYP admissions, but with a heavy emphasis on qualified URM students.  I also anticipate that some parents of truly gifted middle school students will "establish residency" in a less well regarded school districts in 8th grade to game the cohort-based admission system, bringing the student body back to the currently existing pattern.  Then the BOE will come up with another barely-legal admission scheme or just close the programs.  Anyway, if you are in Maryland, the magnet landscape will look completely different in 10 years.  If you are in VA, then first 3 paragraphs still apply.[/quote]

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